Last year, the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) confiscated a total of 22,044 “dangerous items” in airport security screenings around the U.S. Use the graphic below to see what those items were and how many were found in each U.S....

Over the last 40 years, obesity rates around the world have ballooned. The average adult today is 3x as likely to be obese compared to the average adult in 1975. This map shows how it happened, country-by-country. The color...

It’s well known that air travel impacts the climate. U.S. aircraft account for 11% of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. And as the EPA announced just last month, aircraft emissions contribute to climate change and “endanger the public health and welfare of...

In 1910, 83% of African Americans lived in the South, about the same percentage that had lived there since at least as far back as 1790. In the 60 years that followed, growing racism and a lack of economic...